Steve's Phones Show Shorts, sorted and indexed, 2024-2025!
It occurs to me, browsing through my own extensive library of Shorts on YouTube (half 60 seconds long, and the other half, since YouTube's expansion of the format, up to 3 minutes long), it's not trivial to find videos on a particular topic or of a particular type. Hence, I thought I'd try an index of sorts here. That I could point people towards and also refer back to myself when needed.
[Updated May 2025]
NB. The video lists are sorted in approximate chronological order in each section.
NB2. I've gone back a year, so as not to burden you with too much out of date or more primitive content. For the full set of videos, see my YouTube channel generally!
NB3. The lists below show just how much video content I've created in this format. If you'd like to show your appreciation via PayPal?
iPhone-related reviews and comment
Accented characters on Clicks for iPhone!
Why Apple’s Visual Intelligence button is pretty rubbish as a… Camera Control
Clicks keyboard: How to add a keyboard shortcut to an iOS Shortcut!
Apple’s gift for Ambient Music fans in iOS 18.4 for all iPhones!
How to use iOS’s Clock app to add a sleep timer to any media app on the iPhone
Apple Intelligence (AI!), ten months on - the Verdict
Diving deep into Apple’s iPhone 16 Fusion camera technology…
My Verdict on Apple’s iPhone 16 Camera Control
Android phone-related reviews and comment (non-folding)
Half phone, half camera! The Samsung Galaxy K Zoom, from 2014… in 2024!
Nothing Phone 2a Plus: THAT back and misunderstandings!
Nothing Phone 2a Plus: Imaging gallery - photos way better than you’d expect?
Nothing Phone 2a Plus: Nothing OS 3.0 and LED glyphs!
Nothing Phone 2a Plus: Review Verdict - At least it’s different!
Sony Xperia 5 v, the perfect Mini Media Monster, even in 2025?
Sony Xperia 1 vi changes from the 1 v - on balance, a huge thumbs up!
Imaging review of the Sony Xperia 1 vi: Finally, Sony! Finally!
iOS vs Android flagships, and why the Sony Xperia 1 vi doesn’t QUITE grab my SIM card…
Android phone-related reviews and comment (folding)
Goodbye Pixel Fold. I’ll miss you!
Samsung Flip 6 review: part 1: Construction
Samsung Flip 6 review: part 2: Components!
Samsung Flip 6 Review: part 3: Closed video blogging!?
Samsung Flip 6 Review: Part 4: Still Imaging
Samsung Flip 6 review: part 5: UI, apps
Samsung Flip 6 review: Part 6: Support, support, support
Samsung Flip 6 Review: part 7: Wrap up, Verdict
Samsung ‘New DeX’ - a first look on the Flip 6
Pixel-quality photos captured on the Surface Duo?
Android 15 on the Surface Duo!
Android 15 on Surface Duo: Imaging and… errr… a skin!
Samsung Z Fold6: Yay for iteration!
Samsung Z Fold6: Totally Independent Homescreens…
Samsung Fold6: Speakers - mono, twist, stereo!
Samsung Z Fold6: Imaging takeaways, smooth zoom, rich colours, shutter speeds need work
Samsung Fold6: The Compromise Built For Geeks!
Samsung Fold6: A Skin Is The Way To Go!
Multi-launching/switching apps on the Android 12L Surface Duo versus the Android 15 Pixel Fold
The Benefits - and Losses - of upgrading the 12L Surface Duo to Android 15 with the Duo-DE ROM…
Dual Experience Duo: To Miss Pixels or NOT to Miss Pixels, That Is The Question…
Over The Air updates on the Surface Duo Android 15 ROM!
Using the Gemini in 2025: 5 Top Tips!
Re-evaluating the Cosmo Communicator in 2025!
The Astro Slide in 2025: Review part 1: Concept and Keyboard
The Astro Slide in 2025: Review part 2: Imaging and other Components
Retrofitting (and testing) an external camera on the Gemini PDA - it’s almost modular!
My Android set up on the Gemini in 2025… Desktop, interface, apps
General mobile editorial
iOS vs Android: Fight! (or rather don’t!)
The Golden Age of the smartphone is long since over. Welcome to the Incremental Age…
The three screen productivity setup that fits in a pocket! (Universal, Bluetooth to Android and iOS)
Maximum grip for your phone with… (faux) black leather!
Unboxing the Pocket Tripod Pro v2, for all phones in all cases!
£30 Pocket Tripod versus £3 Chinese copy - Did I get what I paid for?
Why Your ‘phone’ is NOT Your Physical Phone…
Steve’s Top Tip: Keep those old classic phones charged if you don’t want the batteries to die!
By far the fastest way to enter text on your phone! But the best? It depends…
What Phone Camera Resolution do you Need? The Megapixel Race was over Fifteen Years Ago!
Classic Symbian/Nokia
15 Years Behind The Office Cupboard: Will This Nokia Classic Boot Up? (N86)
The Nokia N97: An Over-Ambitious Disaster!
From a quarter of a century ago, the mighty Nokia 9210 Communicator. Check out the paperwork! Wow.
Nokia N90: Looking back to the dawn of camera phones… with a twist!
Nokia N93 part 1: smartphone video capture jumps into the next realm: glorious VGA!
Nokia N93 part 2: perfecting the photo and video-taking experience
Nokia N93 part 3: Four reasons why it crashed and burned!
Nokia E90: The Last True Communicator?
The Nokia E90’s charging cradle and spare battery trick! Geeky business fun from times gone by…
And... that's just (as I write this) the last YEAR of YouTube Shorts. Apparently I've done almost 300 in all, of which the above is about a quarter. Phew!
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